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Digging holes is a wonderful skill, especially useful in the wild. Imagine a cozy underground shelter where you can hide from predators, wait out the heat or frost, and also calmly raise your offspring. Sounds just wonderful, doesn't it? Animals such as moles, gophers, foxes, and snakes are especially good at digging deep, comfortable holes.…

Life expectancy of dogs On average, it is 10-13 years, but it can vary greatly among different breeds. The fact is that their life expectancy is influenced by various factors, one of which is body size. Medium-sized dogs are considered long-lived, but large dogs do not live long. For example, the life expectancy of Great…

Soap is a basic hygiene product that we use every day without even thinking about its origin and composition. It has been around for thousands of years, and its history is much more interesting than it might seem at first glance. People began using soap-like substances in ancient times, but it is difficult to trace…

Scientists have made a discovery that is quite unexpected for science – it turned out that some species of animals are able to breathe through their anus. For this unusual study, the team received the Ig Nobel Prize, which is known for rewarding discoveries that first make you laugh and then make you think. This…

Today, robots are present in almost every factory because they can perform complex tasks faster and more accurately than humans. But sometimes industrial robots turn from obedient assistants into heartless killers. History knows of cases when robots found themselves at the center of terrible tragedies. The very first industrial robotappeared at a General Motors plant…

Elon Musk's Tennessee-based artificial intelligence startup xAI is a massive data center. The SpaceX founder's new AI is called Colossus, a reference to one of the first electronic computing devices used to decipher data during World War II. Colossus, as Nvidia notes, runs on more than 100,000 chips, more than any other AI system on…

Life and death are considered to be opposite states of the organism, and the only ones. But according to the latest research, scientists believe that there is a third state. It occurs after the death of multicellular life forms, including humans. According to scientists, this state lies beyond the traditional boundaries of life and death.…

There are many events in the world that repeat themselves over and over again. For example, solar eclipses are quite rare, but predictable. The Olympic Games return every four years, bringing together athletes from all over the world. Thanks to technological progress, even such large-scale events as space flights are becoming more and more commonplace.…

You've probably noticed that the Moon sometimes seems unnaturally large. This is usually most noticeable when it rises or sets. You might think that at this moment the natural satellite is closer to the Earth, but in fact this is not the case. The Moon seems larger near the horizon due to optical distortion of…

When prey enters the predator's digestive tract, it is either dead to begin with or dies quickly in the aggressive digestive environment. In either case, it has no chance of survival, unless it is a Japanese river eel (Anguilla japonica). A recent study has shown that this fish is capable of performing tricks no worse…